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Location:

Corona,CA,

Member Since:

Sep 08, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

2012 Irvine Half Marathon 1:38:20 

2012 Fontana Half Marathon  1:32:17                  

St. George Marathon                                                           2007-4:13:00

2008-3:45:07

2011-3:35:05     

2012-3:26:14

8 Total Marathons                                           

Short-Term Running Goals:

Perfect my diet to run better, stonger and faster!

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run 3:15 marathon.

Personal:

I have 4 kids, 2 boys and 2 girls. 11, 9, 6 and 2. I have been married to my guy for 13 years. He is great and so supportive of my running life. He is also very active, mostly weight training and he has run 2 half marathons as well. He is very fast without training too hard. 1:28 Half Marathon!!! I am working on being able to keep up with him. Someday when are kids are older we look forward to training together.

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Fri, Sep 07, 2012
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesCrosstraining milesTotal Miles
3.007.000.000.000.0010.00

7 mi tempo run this morning. Jackie is injured :( ran alone.

For some reason I have been worrying about doing this tempo all week long. I went into it not feeling super confident but just kept telling myself to do my best. I had wanted to average 7:13 but didn't quite make it... close though.

tempo splits 7:24, 7:08, 7:23, 7:12, 7:17, 7:27, 7:05

I felt really good till mile 5 had to stop at 5.5 and eat some stingers. Wasn't sure I would be able to finish the rest but plugged along as best I could.

Sometimes speedwork sucks all the fun out of running and sometimes it really makes running fun. Latley is sucking!

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Comments
From Kam on Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 16:50:27 from 68.66.163.179

Tempos always psyche me out. It's such a relief to get them in. I have a hard time convincing myself it's worth doing without a finish line beckoning. I guess the difference between finishing well like you do and finishing average like most everybody else is you do these types of workouts. It's pretty easy to ride in the ruts, and just grind out low-effort miles. Good job!

From Britta on Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:10:55 from 99.61.85.97

Thanks Kam! I haven't been running my tempos as well lately so I am sure that is why I am nervous for them. I know they are going to be painful and not be as fast as I know I can do them. Are you running st. george?

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